Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] account for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , a most significant area for dealing with the problem , if not in some cases accounting for it altogether , is to realise a major part lies not outside ourselves ( in them and their attitudes ) , but with me ( in me and my attitudes — in my inner reactions , habits of mind , prejudices and habitual behaviour given certain threatening circumstances ) . |
| 2 | Gas between the galaxies contains too few baryons to account for all the apparent mass but too many to be consistent with the simplest Big Bang models . |
| 3 | Some wardens accounted for the revenues of their bailiwicks directly at the Exchequer . |
| 4 | Such LBOs accounted for $216 billion-worth of deals in 1984–90 , peaking at a total of almost $54 billion in a single year , 1989 , before halving in 1990 . |
| 5 | The proportion of the total variance such correlations account for is of course small and their importance should be judged accordingly . |
| 6 | Altogether , these groups account for about a quarter of all sales by Japanese firms . |
| 7 | The illustrative programme of additional expenditure from January 1993 , set out in Appendix 1 of The Future of Our Qualification , does include programmes ‘ to enhance firms ' profitability ’ and ‘ to help firms translate audit regulation into a profitable opportunity ’ , but these activities account for only £210,000 of the total additional expenditure of almost £2m . |
| 8 | As yet , these schools account for only a small amount of annual expenditure — 3 million in 1989–90 — but the government 's expenditure plans provide for this sum to increase ( to 20 million by 1991–2 ) as more schools choose to ‘ opt out ’ of LEA control and financing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ) . |
| 9 | These companies account for 82% of Scotch Whisky output . |
| 10 | This reveals that these companies accounted for about 40 per cent of manufacturing industry 's net assets , employment , and inward direct investment from overseas ( excluding oil company investment ) , 40–50 per cent of visible exports , 70 per cent of expenditure on industrial scientific research and development , and about 75 per cent of direct investment by UK companies ( excluding oil ) in manufacturing overseas . |
| 11 | These movements account for 75 per cent . |
| 12 | These calculations account for the enthusiasm with which some reformers embraced and recommended models for the development of self-regulation amongst slaves . |
| 13 | As levels with ν > 0 are normally not significantly populated , these bands account for most of the intensity in an absorption spectrum . |
| 14 | In the same report ( UNEP 1982 : 265 ) , it is claimed that the total area being reclaimed by irrigation is probably about the same as is being abandoned through salinisation , alkalinisation and water-logging , and that these problems account for the loss of about 2–3 million ha of the world 's best agricultural land each year . |
| 15 | These studies accounted for 22% of published original articles by 1991 . |
| 16 | According to Wang Yangzu , deputy director of the agency , these businesses account for only 4 per cent of polluters but are responsible for over 60 per cent of the total industrial pollution caused . |
| 17 | These observations account for the distinction of usage between make and cause quite adequately . |
| 18 | These items accounted for only £17m in 1991 : in 1992 they are put at £28m . |
| 19 | How are these differences accounted for ? |
| 20 | These diseases account for 71 per cent of deaths in those aged 65 + . |
| 21 | These tests account for 25 per cent of the final marks , a combined mark of 60 per cent or more ( grades A , B , C or D ) securing success in the theoretical part of the final examination . |
| 22 | These theorists accounted for the high rates of crime found in the broken-down inner-city areas in terms of ‘ social disorganisation ’ . |
| 23 | By 1983 these services accounted for almost £I billion of the annual budget and any savings made there could be transferred to the main activity of treating patients . |
| 24 | Between them , these bacteria account for many losses suffered by fishkeepers . |
| 25 | As Wigglesworth suggested , only perinatal deaths due to asphyxia in labour and immaturity directly reflect the effectiveness of medical care , and these categories accounted for only 16% and 23% of perinatal deaths , respectively , in this series — an average of 46 deaths a year from an average of over 11000 births occurring in several hospitals . |
| 26 | Yes er erm my instructions are that all persons are accounted for in the premises and er once they 've been accounted for er then it was safe for other officers , i.e the C I D or Superintendent to go to that yes and they would not have been allowed in had I not received instructions that the house was secure and all persons accounted for . |
| 27 | There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight . |
| 28 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 29 | Several factors account for this distribution : the ageing of populations in situ ; out-migration of the young and in-migration of older people . |
| 30 | It seems likely that several factors account for the gender differences in morbidity and that there are different explanations for different types of illness . |